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Curiosities from the Pacific Ocean · van Duuren / Mostert

Curiosities from the Pacific Ocean · van Duuren / Mostert

Sidestone Press, Leiden · ISBN 978-90-5450-008-7 · a collection that reached the French in 1793

Item no. 100-1036-000

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Description

David van Duuren and Steven Mostert reconstruct the history of an Oceanic collection acquired by a French expedition thirteen years after the Endeavour voyage and today dispersed across several European museums.

Why that is remarkable

Because the paths of individual objects — bark cloth beaters, clubs, ornaments — can be traced in detail. Such unbroken provenances are exceptionally rare for pieces two hundred years old.